I have written before about my sixth grade teacher, Otha Woodcock. Her classroom loomed at the end of a long hall at Heard School. We all had to pass through it on our way to junior high and we dreaded it.

While I agree with the need to know and use correct grammar, I can't agree with using twitter and Facebook as a reference point for that knowledge or use. That would be comparable to looking at everyone on the beach in their swimsuits and saying "none of these people know how to wear a tuxedo or evening gown, you couldn't take them anywhere". When it's time to draft a formal written document, anyone who had Mrs. Hammond for English at PiCoHi can do that. If I were to tweet, which I do not, I wouldn't feel obligated to get formal. Please don't expect us to wear a tuxedo to the beach.

I think we should scale our expectations a little with grammar and punctuation - informal txtng, vowels are optional. Casual email, clean it up a little more. Written for print, flawless.

As far as Mr. Diguette's argument, I don't have a proper defense - only "wow, I hope my kids aren't like that when they graduate high school".

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